Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sterling is not only an artist in the maintenance of non-existent suspense; he has been the man who, when the Watch and Ward allowed a bit of literary seepage, put his finger in the dike until the police had a chance to follow his suggestion of proscribing the subtly indecent book. The waters of obscenity have roared without, but Mr. Sterling has not been daunted. In Harvard Square, long stigmatized as the capital of Massachusetts pornographia, he found but one objectionable book, which was withdrawn with the bookseller's apology that it was on sale only because...
...Francisco, a small boy had a birthday, made his party out of such stuff as Mozart, Bach and Tartini and entertained 10.000 guests. He was Yehudi Menuhin, who after two years abroad, has upset the tradition that a child prodigy can never be a great artist. Out he came on to the great Civic Auditorium stage, a chunky child in the white socks, silk blouse and velvet breeches of the conventional boy violinist. Over his face spread a wide, confiding smile. Up to his chin went the violin ? itself not quite man-sized ? and the concert began...
...verdict of a newspaper critic means nothing to an artist, Nevertheless, a critic ought to be a capable man who knows his field, which he should regard as primarily, constructive, not as an excuse for tearing apart everything the artist does. Above all, however, the public should not take the decision of one individual as a final standard: people should remember that this one man is influenced not only by his digestion, but by the weather, the surroundings he lives in and thousands of other circumstances...
Cyrena van Gordon, noted American contralto of the Chicago Civic Opera Company who sang a leading part in Wagner's "Lohengrin", said this in her suite in the Hotel Ritz Carlton yesterday afternoon. Miss van Gordon pointed out that after all, an artist was a human being. She was especially prejudiced against men who carp at traces of individuality in the work of operatic artists...
Married. Miss Frances Lindon Smith, daughter of Artist Joseph Lindon Smith of Manhattan; to Raymond Otis, son of Banker Joseph Edward Otis, of Chicago; in Manhattan...